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| BI-WEEKLY |
| PRELIMINARY TEXTILE AND APPAREL IMPORTS | March 12, 2009
| HTS Chapters 50-63 ONLY! |
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| By Category |
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Category 363: COTTON TERRY / OTHER PILE TOWELS
Data in Nos.
(P) These data are limited preliminary import data based on import figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
It will be supplanted by official imports from the Census Bureau as those data become available. The release of these data
is to allow preliminary analysis of the impact of total imports into the United States and imports from China into the
United States to facilitate the administration of the textile safeguard in China's WTO Accession Agreement.
----------- Official Data -------- | --------------- Preliminary Data (unofficial) --------------------------------------------|
Monthly Data Two Weeks-ending Data (2008 - 2009)
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Country 1/2008 2/2008 12/2008 | 1/2009 2/2009 12/13 12/27 1/10 1/24 2/07 2/21 3/07
(P) (P) (P) (P) (P) (P) (P) (P) (P)
World 64619782 55958706 50520539 | 55691404 46316207 25273929 18675935 26868900 24450252 25834628 23047974 23054568
Pakistan 18110717 15544620 19421071 | 15881348 13975726 9545416 7428983 8599667 6262161 7633345 7115869 7052564
India 13235375 15795717 8904624 | 15796325 11587813 4805510 3535066 6041649 7308456 7332269 5638683 7031937
China 12936261 8769222 8975625 | 11042521 10754387 4227820 2627538 4649500 4796536 6336600 5111175 4167859
Bangladesh 4790241 3596257 4138445 | 4024030 3166760 1966865 1653569 2624057 1508420 1368383 1599590 1720516
Brazil 4876993 2271527 2891773 | 3111750 2007224 1267613 1472802 1878081 1705702 709518 1241672 720498
Thailand 2228233 1802708 1159147 | 1242260 775152 661785 445026 750256 648452 391432 492721 422509
Israel 1612106 1226479 1261170 | 1096245 807557 691999 371874 594009 543372 293808 455076 605837
Vietnam 920259 1517090 399003 | 1038951 665069 248582 36813 390806 668937 384805 231420 386376
Turkey 2427802 2061062 1175814 | 896924 593083 708841 449460 425039 386565 463784 298893 115620
Egypt 327098 398496 437977 | 433691 410658 288779 156318 245264 154877 215734 243957 115031
Mexico 372552 398039 215464 | 396244 300196 32940 88103 171331 198116 160140 175762 132812
Colombia 584872 469306 511559 | 322262 319520 199751 263475 169356 85160 114294 136686 199152
El Salvador 310464 350036 369434 | 214284 355919 176568 73606 167839 137883 101097 196656 132130
Portugal 277375 304739 152736 | 134052 189130 95079 41643 106477 14854 77069 85943 103889
Indonesia 21984 89220 59840 | 11955 4668 42324 17520 . 11955 . 4668 .
_ASEAN 3214660 3409018 1617990 | 2293454 1444917 952691 499509 1141062 1329632 776250 728824 808885
_ANDEAN (ATPA) 584909 472814 517676 | 323234 321156 199796 269617 169952 85604 114326 136822 200675
_CBI 347076 375368 369434 | 214298 356039 176668 73606 167839 137885 101109 196776 132130
_CAFTA 347076 375368 369434 | 214298 356039 176668 73606 167839 137885 101109 196776 132130
_SUB-SAHARA 113 1247 595 | 79 456 612 . 79 . . 426 30